Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World

By Jorge Cañizares Esguerra and Jorge Canizares-Esguerra

Book Overview

This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804755442
• ISBN13: 9780804755443
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"